Please post your questions below and dStahl will answer selected questions from all those received. Please post them today as I will ship questions off to Dan tomorrow afternoon.
Also, remember that questions will not be answered in this thread -- answers will be posted in an upcoming "Ask Cryptic" Web Feature that will be released in the beginning of May.
Do you have any details you can share about episode reruns in May and how the acquisition of Lobi Crtystals will be tied-in to this and future events? Also, are there plans to revamp exploration at some point?
Have you considered adding tier-based STFs or fleet actions? For example, a TOS version of Sacrifice of Angels where 20 Tier-2 ships take on a fleet of period specific enemies.
When are you going to stop with this periodic small content and flesh the game out:? It's been 2 years and barely any new significant content has been released. At this point it seems that the Klingon side should have it's own starting area and at least on more playable race should have been added. Then there is endgame content which is almost non existent. When is real progression, and raiding going to be added?
are we ever going to see more missions that continue the main story line? not even FE, just an installment of episodes that picks up were the last unidine mission, fluid dynamics i think, left off?
Is there a chance that we can get a playable Ferasn captain? I would love to add that to my KDF lineup.
Are the engineering reports coming down the pike?
If you can talk about fleets ...
Has there been any talk about having a Bridge Officer storage for Fleet Bases? My fleet has a few blues and purples that we dont need but want to hold on to incase someone wants to roll a captain with all Bajorians or Andorians.
Will fleets be able to form alliences with one another (like the City of Heroes Coalitions)?
With the Vault out, and Alpha out, and the last FE in regular progression can you give us a hint towards whats next in the way of new missions outside the upcoming FE Replay?
Are there any new costumes coming out for the Tier 5 BOP and Raptor on the KDF side to match with the more modern looking +1 ships on the lower levels and the Vor'kang? I love my Qin, but it's honestly not a very attractive ship when compared to the +1 models of the other raptors. It lacks that sleek aggressive look.
Events in the fleet event tab won't let anyone but the original poster remove them. For example, our fleet had a fleet admiral that left. Other fleet admirals are unable to remove his events that are repeating and cluttering up the list. Are there any plans to give fleet admirals the ability to remove events such as these?
Due to the change to the cooldowns for STFs, is there any plan to maybe nerf the damage output of the Borg NPCs in them? Elite STFs (in particular Cure Space) are almost impossible.
In my line of work, we like to keep things short, sweet and to the point. Though I could go on explaining my question, I'm just going to come out and say it: When is this game not going to suck?
Alright I'll give you a better one. It feels like this game has entered a dark period with the lack of fun and enjoyable content and lack of endgame and lack of exploration etc. When will this game come out of the "Dark Ages?"
1. As many Vice Admirals have played through the entire game and have maxed out ship and character abilities, what are things we can look forward too to justify paying for the game moving forward.
2. Will you be opening up the ability to play as BORG or Romulan/Reman? I think it would be great to be able to just open fire on another character in the game. If I was a BORG, you could go around fighting people as they are traveling through various sectors.
3. Will you be opening up the ability to play in the Mirror Universe? They are on our side, why not open up some sub-space rift that allows you to cross over to their side. Set up a starbase for our universe on their side.
4. I really need new reasons to place this game, without just replaying the entire game as a new character. What else can Star Trek Online offer dedicated users moving forward?
Is there any chance we can get increased personal bank and inventory space, also possibley with the addition of "TABS" for consumables and tribbles.
Dilithium was supposed to be brought in to combine all the currentcies, However Lobi Crystals have now been introduced - will there be a way to exchange GPL and or Dilithium for Lobi Crystals and will we be able to sell our unwanted lock box items to the Lobi Vendor for crystals.
What kind of additions/changes are in the pipeline, now that Gozer has become the King of PvP? When can we expect to see them? Any sort term plans (maps, etc)?
Now that we met some of the new Enterprise F Crew Members do you plan to include them into more missions in the future? Like in some kind of stand alone missions where the player has to help them or at least deal with them.
With the fate of a Romulan Faction up in the air, is there a chance we could at least see playable Romulans for KDF and Fed players, or at the very least Romulan ridges in the tailor?
Any chance the Klingons can get a mission like Alpha, where they get to fight alongside (and meet) the crew of the Bortasqu' and is there any chance the ship's captain will be a female?
Why no more story driven stf's? I'm quoting gozer from his recent stoked interview for that question? What exactly are plans for this focus on endgame? Details please, Dan?
The Ferengi D'Kora lockbox reward had onboard mail and exchange console functionality that players have been asking for a long time. Another feature long asked for was the ability to use the crafting system on board your ship.
Will features like these ever be rolled out to other ships, besides lockbox ships?
Also previously mentioned was a revamp of the Crafting system. Is there any chance this will be in development prior to Season 7?
If you could predict what features will be in Season 7, what features do you think will be likely to make the cut? Do you already know what the theme for Season 7 will be?
Mr. Stahl i was wondering when will you and the rest of the dev team be doing another in game pvp event with players? i ask because on the website for the fleet im in we have awards for ingame stuff and one of them requires being killed by you. If i may ask another i was wondering roughly when new stf's will be comeing out? thank you for your time in answering these questions.
Why no more story driven stf's? I'm quoting gozer from his recent stoked interview for that question? What exactly are plans for this focus on endgame? Details please, Dan?
Over the years, it's seemed like Cryptic has pushed patches through even when bugs are known or seem obvious to players. Are there any plans to allow more time for QA with future patches to improve the "polish" of the game, or maybe go back and fix existing bugs?
Do you still want the "one giant sector space to rule them all?" if so how will auto pilot work? Will player ships just fly a straight diagonal line from say iota pavonis to Deep Space Nine going threw unclaimed (or what BOFF's refer to as deep space) or will ship take a path similar to how we do now?
Gozer mentioned on STOked last week that there was a new set of STF gear in the works and that the current Mk XII sets were going to become available for EDC, any clues as to when that will happen? Any hints about the new sets?
Any chance we get some more HUD options like the ability to lock all the HUDs in their current position or hide/minimize more of them like the Mini Map, Mission Tracker/PVP Missions, Notifications and Team Status sections.
I always seem to end up dragging my hud pieces constantly around as it is far to easy since you just hold one mouse button. If locking the HUD positions is impossible, maybe make it so you have to hold Ctrl and drag them around as that is something less likely to happen during a game. I know you can save the positions of your HUDs but having to reload that every few days means something is not working as it should be.
Notifications with a team of 5, end up blocking the view of the whole screen with Need or Greed requests. I was hoping that the ability to hide the Gameplay Announcement Flybys was also going to get rid of the notification spam but that ended up not being the case. Maybe keep them as as a single line that goes left to right instead of top to bottom would at least prevent your view of the ongoing battle from being obstructed.
With the Mission Tracker HUD window, I really do not want to see a list of 30 missions I have, just show me the ones I set as priority and leave the rest off the list. The ability to minimize the window would also be great if multiple selected priority missions is impossible to do.
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Btw, someone complains about this at EVERY SSR party.
Is there any plans to let plays have Romulan ships like the cardassion and ferengi ?
Is there a chance that we can get a playable Ferasn captain? I would love to add that to my KDF lineup.
Are the engineering reports coming down the pike?
If you can talk about fleets ...
Has there been any talk about having a Bridge Officer storage for Fleet Bases? My fleet has a few blues and purples that we dont need but want to hold on to incase someone wants to roll a captain with all Bajorians or Andorians.
Will fleets be able to form alliences with one another (like the City of Heroes Coalitions)?
Thank you as always for your time.
Matt Miracle
Are there any new costumes coming out for the Tier 5 BOP and Raptor on the KDF side to match with the more modern looking +1 ships on the lower levels and the Vor'kang? I love my Qin, but it's honestly not a very attractive ship when compared to the +1 models of the other raptors. It lacks that sleek aggressive look.
Alright I'll give you a better one. It feels like this game has entered a dark period with the lack of fun and enjoyable content and lack of endgame and lack of exploration etc. When will this game come out of the "Dark Ages?"
2. Will you be opening up the ability to play as BORG or Romulan/Reman? I think it would be great to be able to just open fire on another character in the game. If I was a BORG, you could go around fighting people as they are traveling through various sectors.
3. Will you be opening up the ability to play in the Mirror Universe? They are on our side, why not open up some sub-space rift that allows you to cross over to their side. Set up a starbase for our universe on their side.
4. I really need new reasons to place this game, without just replaying the entire game as a new character. What else can Star Trek Online offer dedicated users moving forward?
Will we see Starfleet or KDF-issued environment suits?
Will we see environment suits available as costumes for Foundry missions?
Dilithium was supposed to be brought in to combine all the currentcies, However Lobi Crystals have now been introduced - will there be a way to exchange GPL and or Dilithium for Lobi Crystals and will we be able to sell our unwanted lock box items to the Lobi Vendor for crystals.
Thanks
How about updates to the Sci resists?
Is UPS going to make another appearance as I believe that could be a good socail meeting place.
Any chance the Klingons can get a mission like Alpha, where they get to fight alongside (and meet) the crew of the Bortasqu' and is there any chance the ship's captain will be a female?
Will features like these ever be rolled out to other ships, besides lockbox ships?
Also previously mentioned was a revamp of the Crafting system. Is there any chance this will be in development prior to Season 7?
If you could predict what features will be in Season 7, what features do you think will be likely to make the cut? Do you already know what the theme for Season 7 will be?
I always seem to end up dragging my hud pieces constantly around as it is far to easy since you just hold one mouse button. If locking the HUD positions is impossible, maybe make it so you have to hold Ctrl and drag them around as that is something less likely to happen during a game. I know you can save the positions of your HUDs but having to reload that every few days means something is not working as it should be.
Notifications with a team of 5, end up blocking the view of the whole screen with Need or Greed requests. I was hoping that the ability to hide the Gameplay Announcement Flybys was also going to get rid of the notification spam but that ended up not being the case. Maybe keep them as as a single line that goes left to right instead of top to bottom would at least prevent your view of the ongoing battle from being obstructed.
With the Mission Tracker HUD window, I really do not want to see a list of 30 missions I have, just show me the ones I set as priority and leave the rest off the list. The ability to minimize the window would also be great if multiple selected priority missions is impossible to do.